Calm at the Lake rework progress

This is how the painting looked after I scraped back some of the pastel

And after the first stages of the block-in

And this is how it looks at the moment

I still need to work on it a while and will the update in a couple of days.

I used mainly Rembrandt pastel. This is now at the stage where I wish I had some softer pastel to give me a few juicy strokes.

I feel it already looks better compositionally, and would be interested in what you think or if you can see areas for improvement.

Check out the original version and my reasons for reworking it HERE